Task #2: Listen/read the lyrics to Katy Perry's song Firework and identify the figurative language used in the lyrics on the sheet provided. Be sure to label them as metaphors, similes, etc.
Firework Song and Lyrics
Task #3 Create your own similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole
Task #4 Make the Connection
Brainstorm and think about places in your short stories where you can add figurative language to enhance the reader's understanding of the text. How can you use imagery and figurative language to "put the reader there?"
Task #5 Extra Practice: Watch the video and observe the use of figurative language. Discuss and record additional examples of figurative language in songs with your group. What does using this type of language do for songs?
Video: Figurative Language in Songs
More Practice!
Grinch - Your A Mean One Mr Grinch lyrics
You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch.
You really are a heel.
You're as cuddly as a cactus,
You're as charming as an eel,
Mr. Grinch.
You're a bad banana with a greasy black peel.
You're a monster, Mr. Grinch.
Your heart's an empty hole.
Your brain is full of spiders.
You've got garlic in your soul, Mr Grinch.
I wouldn't touch you with a
Thirty-nine and a half foot pole.
You're a vile one, Mr. Grinch.
You have termites in your smile,
You have all the tender sweetness of a seasick crocodile,
Mr Grinch.
Given the choice between the two of you,
I'd take the seasick crocodile.
You're a foul one, Mr. Grinch.
You're a nasty wasty skunk.
Your heart is full of unwashed socks.
Your soul is full of gunk,
Mr Grinch.
The three best words that best describe you,
Are as follows, and I quote"
Stink!
Stank!
Stunk!
You're a rotter Mr Grinch
You're the king of sinful sots
Your hearts a dead tomato squashed with moldy purple spots
Mr Grinch
Your sole is a appalling dump heap
Overflowing with the most disgraceful
Assortment of deplorable rubbish imaginable,
Mangled up in tangled up knots.
You nauseate me, Mr Grinch
With a noxious super nos
You're a crooked jerky jockey and,
You drive a crooked horse
Mr Grinch!
You're a three-decker sauerkraut
And toadstool sandwich,
With arsenic sauce!
Lyrics | Grinch lyrics - Your A Mean One Mr Grinch lyrics
Figurative Language Lesson and Practice
Task #1
Figurative Language Rap
Task #2: Listen/read the lyrics to Katy Perry's song Firework and identify the figurative language used in the lyrics on the sheet provided. Be sure to label them as metaphors, similes, etc.
Firework Song and Lyrics
Task #3
Create your own similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole
Task #4 Make the Connection
Brainstorm and think about places in your short stories where you can add figurative language to enhance the reader's understanding of the text. How can you use imagery and figurative language to "put the reader there?"
Task #5 Extra Practice: Watch the video and observe the use of figurative language. Discuss and record additional examples of figurative language in songs with your group. What does using this type of language do for songs?
Video: Figurative Language in Songs
More Practice!